Random Touché

It was Saturday afternoon and I got a wake up call out of boredom. My friend Azam invited me to accompany him testing out one of his usual crazy custom job on his supercharged MINI Cooper S. He ordered a custom made wheel spacers that come with an integrated centre cone purposely to fit into his aftermarket deep dish rims so it could run on high speed without any noticeable vibration. We then went to the wheel alignment shop to do the fitting and finally the on wheel balancing. The alignment technician was sceptical it would work perfectly since he found out a very small gap between centre cone and the wheel hub. Azam believes it could be a ‘tolerance gap’ to accommodate the heat expansion of the aluminium centre cone inside the wheel. Well, how should we know unless we tested it, sounds evil right? . So, we off to Genting Highlands to test out this piece of custom job.

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